Henna against gray hair: recipes for staining at home

The appearance of gray hair is perceived by most women as a tragedy. In fact, everything is not as scary as it seems, because you can restore the old color with the help of staining. But how to be if you do not want to expose curls to chemical dyes? In this case, the people's means will help. So, for example, henna will help with gray hair and blonde women. About how correctly to paint henna with gray hair and will go further.

What kind of henna paints her gray hair?

To begin with, we note that the color of gray henna will be effective only if no chemical dyes have been used before. That is, this method is suitable only for women with natural hair color: from light brown and red to dark chestnut.

Practically any henna (except for colorless) well tones gray hair. The question is only in the shade and time that is needed to get the effect. For example, to obtain a beautiful tone, it may take from 2 to 12 hours, depending on the structure of the hair and their initial amount of gray hair. For this reason, the coloring of gray hair with henna is most conveniently done at home. To enhance the effect and vary the palette of hues in henna, you can also add different components: basmu (for brunettes), coffee and cocoa (for brownies), turmeric (for redheads).

How to color gray hair with henna: recipes for staining at home

In the recipe below, the number of ingredients is calculated on light brown hair of medium length with a small amount of gray hair. And the presence in its composition of natural coffee will give dark hair a rich chocolate shade.

Necessary ingredients:

• henna Iranian-2 packs
• burdock, castor and olive oil - 1 tsp each.
• grape seed oil-10 drops
• natural coffee-1/2 cup

Stages of preparation:

1. In a deep bowl, pour out the henna.

2. We pour in burdock burdock, castor and olive oil, but do not mix the mixture.

3. We add drops of grape seed oil.
   
   
4. We brew thick ground coffee. For the recipe, you need 1/2 cup of strong drink along with the thick. Lightly cool the coffee and pour it into the paint.
   
   
5. Thoroughly mix, cover the mixture with a lid and leave the clock at 5-6. After that, the paint can be used.

Attention! It should be borne in mind that the gray hair stains badly, so when preparing the paint, leave a little mixture for additional tinting the roots of the hair again.

The following recipe for the preparation of henna for coloring is more suitable for those with bright red and copper hair.

Necessary ingredients:

• henna-2 packages
• turmeric powder, 1 tsp.
• kefir-2-3 st. l.
• warm water-2 tbsp. l.
• juice of one lemon

Stages of preparation:

1. We pour henna into a deep container and immediately mix with the juice of 1 lemon.
   
   
2. Add 1 teaspoon of turmeric and a little warm water to the bowl, mix the mixture.
   
   
   
   
3. Kefir a little warmed up in a water bath. Add it to the mixture and mix it to make it homogeneous. You can use the paint immediately, but keep on your hair for at least 12 hours.